The Elder Scrolls: Blades Adds Motion Controls On Switch, Version 1.7.1 Patch Notes

Wow-ee. We love ourselves some waggle!

Is the game really bad? I downloaded it then read it was rubbish so I uninstalled it lol

@TR4KERZ It's far from unbearable as long as expectations are kept in check. It's more of a mindless hack'n'slash dungeon crawl. Having Elder Scrolls in the name is a disservice.

@TR4KERZ

It is free to download and when that is an option you can trust your own judgement without relying on others so download it again and give it a try.

I tried it for about 4 minutes before deleting it as it was ugly trash, but one person's trash is another person's treasure.

@AlexOlney Good one.

They can polish it as much as they want crap is still crap

@JaxonH will love this.

The thing is...why was it not launched with motion controls. Game is utter crap anyway.

I still have this bug where it´s asking for insane amount of IRL money to do anything

Hopefully patch 1.8 removes the six or seven hour paywall

@teamdoa As a free to play game it captures the basics of Elder Scrolls in canned missions and is fun enough at that. The big problem I have with the game is that after playing for about seven hours there is a pretty steep paywall that basically stops you from progressing without paying a large amount of money. The same exact thing was true of Asphalt 9: Legends on Switch. Again, very decent game for free to play, but you can literally not progress at all without spending a huge amount of money. I'm fine with free to play where hours in spending $10 - $20 is needed or playing repetitive missions for hours will also do the job, but these are basically needing $100+ to get anywhere. For me it's a tough sell when you can get the full (actually great) Skyrim game on Switch digitally for $30 (at the time of this writing).

@Octane
I do love they added it! But I really dont like F2P games. Particularly ones with timers. That's why I stayed away from Asphault. Heard you have to wait to open chests after a certain amount? Ya idk. Wish theyd do a paid version that omits the F2P aspects.

Still, credit where credit is due. The motion is a fine addition

@JaxonH That sounds bad, I thought it was like ES Online.

Did they add in a patch that removes this game from the eShop, yet?

@AlexOlney It's astonishingly bad. Really bad.

@AlexOlney Your face tells a different story...

When are they adding the fun?

People are expecting Skyrim depth in a Freemium Rpg-lite. I think modern gamers are too spoiled. The game is designed to be played in spurts, their is no paywall as people claim. You don't have to pay a dime if you play the game as is, and have patience. You have the OPTION to buy special treasure chests. And the OPTION to buy gems which can be used to speed up crafting as well as make up for lacking certain materials which can be obtained with quest grinding, the abyss, and patience, building structures. They aren't trying to rip you off, they are trying to get paid. They have to make some profit for employee payroll, maintaining the servers, etc. And really, as a whole The Elder Scrolls games were CRAP until Oblivion and then Skyrim came along and actually made the series interesting and fun..and besides the main Elder Scrolls games their were a few smaller and ***** adventure and rpg-lite games. In comparison to the other spin off ES games like ES:Redguard for example which was a clunky third person mess, Blades is well done and fun for what it is.. a Rpg-lite.

@Oddball83 It's pretty clear that while the company doesn't want to directly rip people off, that using F2P models in games are there to prey on people with addictive behaviors. Just saying, yeah they want to get paid, but making a game doesn't guarantee their pay and they know that because it's based on sales and such. Don't be surprised that a lot of people are turned off by a F2P game on a Nintendo console; most of the people on the Switch are not the target audience.

And yet Skyrim still doesn't have a brightness option or mods that the hacking community is fully enjoying. But I guess updating a game without micro-transactions isn't really worth it, right Bethe$da ?

Now if it can only add a game worth playing. Haha
I kid, I kid

I tried it, didn’t like it at all, I’ll stick with the vastly superior Skyrim.

The motion controls suck.... You still have to hold down zl or zr and swing the joy-con but have to time it just right or the weapon won't even hit the enemy

Cool, I still don't like it, but hey, I can kinda see people enjoying this, but this is lame Switch support. Who's going "Man, I would love having a mobile game on Switch…"? And even if there is someone wanting a mobile game on Switch, or this game in general, they obviously already have a device to play those games, especially since there are plenty of smartphones and tablets under $100 these days. You can get one (admittedly bad) phone for $20 these days that can probably run this game fine, so unless your Switch is the only device you have, or you just love Controllers and Motion Controls, there is no point getting this game for free unless you're just trying it out, but again, you likely already have another device, maybe even a bigger and/or better device, to play this on. This game is a waste of storage space to me, but again, if you like it, that's fine, I'm not here to judge you, I'm here to criticize Bethesda and their actions.

@Oddball83 Morrowind was a not a bad game for it's time and was really successful. The fact you try to write it off as crap tells me all I need to know about your opinion.

@lordzand Your lame ass anime profile pic tells me all I need to know about yours. Morrowinds "success" was based on hype and popgamers like yourself who will play anything. You probably think Final Fantasy games are good rpgs too lmfao. Square has always paid for hype and farce reviews and you buy into it because you're a gullible popgamer. period.

@Oddball83 you're aware that my profile picture is from a video game right? That was the art style for the video game.

Keep trying to be edgy and one day you'll just fall off the edge.

@lordzand Only a clueless popgamer would see having your own opinion as "edgy".